Resources & Data...

Sagehen's data is the result of a significant investment of resources over many decades. The station makes its data available free of charge with the provision that users will help us stay in business by:

• complying with station use requirements-- including proper publication credit to the station & to the data owners;
• complying with our "Fair-Use" policy (see below);
• notifying the station in advance of download;
• submitting a reserve use application.

Contact the Station Manager for access to password-protected data sets on this page.

"Fair-Use" Policy for Sagehen data:

Kindly inform the appropriate Principal Investigators of how you are using site data and of any publication plans. If the Principal Investigators feel that they should be acknowledged or offered participation as authors, they will let you know and we assume that an agreement on such matters will be reached prior to publishing and/or use of the data for publication. If your work directly competes with the Principal Investigator's analysis they may ask that they have the opportunity to submit a manuscript before you submit the one that uses their data. In addition, when publishing, please acknowledge the agency(s) that supported the research.

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Specific research data is available directly from investigators. Use the following links to access general baseline data collected by Station staff and others. This page shows many active data collection points in the Sagehen basin. Download a spreadsheet with all Sagehen weather station sensors & network components.

Report unusual weather or flooding to the National Weather Service: (800) 446-1428

weather

• precipitation
• snow depth
• RH
• atmospheric pressure
• air temperature
• ground temperature
• surface temperature
• solar radiation
• wind speed, gust and direction

Click for 24-hour data.

The data set from Sagehen's on-site weather station dates from 1953 to the present. Archived daily weather data is available through the National Climate Data Center (fee service).

• Precipitation, temperature, snowfall & snow depth
• Daily extremes, averages and totals
• Monthly extremes, averages and tota

Natural Resources Conservation Service SNOTEL :

• Temperature, snow depth and water equivalent data from the ridge at the head of Sagehen Creek basin (site name="Independence Lake").
• Snow Course and monthly SNOTEL data tables since 1937.
• Display "Independence Lake" site data as graph.

U.S. Geological Survey stream flow & chemistry data:

Sagehen Creek has been a Hydrology Benchmark Network (HBN) site since October, 1953. This page has more information about the HBN and NADP programs.

• Real-time data from the gauge on Sagehen Creek, includes: water temperature, discharge & gauge height.
• Most recent Sagehen Creek flow reports.
• Stream flow data (since October, 1953).
• Water quality monitoring data (since May, 1968).

USDA Forest Service Stream Survey, 2002: Chris Mease, Project Director.

• Summary: download
• Map: download
• Culvert survey: Part 1 | Part 2
• Bank instability & large woody debris survey: download
• Fish survey: download
• Entrenchment, Width to Depth, Vegetation, and Temperature data: download
• Non-protocol stream survey: Part 1 | Part 2
• Pool & riffle survey: download
• Reach comments: complete | summary
• Short tributaries & headwater: download
• Habitat unit: download

Sagehen ground water well transect data: contact Station Manager

Sagehen basin soil map: contact Station Manager

Digital Geologic Map of the northern Lake Tahoe-Donner Pass Region, northern Sierra Nevada, California...

• Large image
• Small image
• More info
• Photos of 2006 field work in the N. Fork of the American River.
• Photos of 2007 field work in Sagehen & Independence Basins.

See this page for GIS data, maps & layers. You can also search the USGS Earth Explorer for maps & imagery using these corner coordinates:

Use this link for printable field maps of the Sagehen Basin.

Biological inventory of birds in Sagehen Basin

Bird breeding status & habitat data from the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) project:

2004 Sagehen Creek Informal Bird Sighting List

Station Manager:

Jeff Brown
University of California, Berkeley
Sagehen Creek Field Station
P.O. Box 939
Truckee, CA 96160-0939
(530) 587-4830
(530) 582-4031: fax
jrbrown@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Station email: sagehen@berkeley.edu

Faculty Director:

Prof. James W. Kirchner
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science
479 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767
(510) 643-8559
(510) 643-9980: fax
kirchner@seismo.berkeley.edu
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/~kirchner/

Address questions, requests & comments about this web-site to...

Assistant Manager:

Faerthen Felix
University of California, Berkeley
Sagehen Creek Field Station
P.O. Box 939
Truckee, CA 96160-0939
(530) 587-4830
(530) 582-4031: fax
Station email: sagehen@berkeley.edu

Program Director:

Katie Fesus Zanto
University of California, Berkeley
Sagehen Creek Field Station
P.O. Box 939
Truckee, CA 96160-0939
(530) 587-4830
(530) 582-4031: fax
Station email: sagehen@berkeley.edu

Finance & Accounting:

Joyce Leighton
Berkeley Natural History Museums
1007 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California,
Berkeley CA 94720-3070
(510) 642-6968
(510) 642-1822: fax
joyce@socrates.berkeley.edu

Human Resources:

Jeanne Kassis
Berkeley Natural History Museums
1007 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California,
Berkeley CA 94720-3070
(510) 642-6848
(510) 642-1822: fax
kassj@uclink.berkeley.edu